page_title: Anton Mirou
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Anton Mirou / Life
context_page_description: Antoine, or Anton Mirou, was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter of the Frankenthal school. He is known for his wooded and rocky landscapes and landscapes with populated villages. He was also a topographical draftsman whose views were widely disseminated through prints.
context_section_description: Anton Mirou was born in Antwerp where he was baptized on 4 May 1578 in the Cathedral of Our Lady.  His family must have been Protestant as they left Antwerp in 1586 after the Fall of Antwerp.  The family moved to Frankenthal where a younger brother was born. Mirou made in 1602 a declaration in Frankenthal that he was 24 years of age.
  On stylistic grounds it is believed that he trained in Frankenthal under the prominent Flemish landscape Gillis van Coninxloo who resided there from 1588 to 1595. Another Flemish painter active in Germany called Hendrik Gijsmans was possibly also his teacher.
  He married in 1602 in Frankenthal with Susanneke Jaspersdr. van Conincxloo. According to an unknown source, he returned to Antwerp in 1620, where he possibly died.  He must have died after 1621 and before 8 April 1627 as on the latter date his wife is mentioned as widow.
caption: Extensive Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt
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